NIST Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring NIST skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 38 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing NIST 14 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 2.67% 2.37% 7.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.69% 12.35% 36.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 29
10th Percentile £515 £488 £495
25th Percentile £550 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.67% -18.64%
75th Percentile £800 £538 £750
90th Percentile - £600 £800
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -2.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Warwickshire

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 131 81 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 25.00% 19.19% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 54 62
10th Percentile £235 - £400
25th Percentile £378 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £725
90th Percentile £638 £638 £799
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.75% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £16.13 £13.58 -
25th Percentile £25.17 £14.17 -
Median hourly rate £31.03 £14.60 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.53% -57.68% -
75th Percentile £36.35 £14.70 -
90th Percentile £40.46 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £16.19 £27.50
% change year-on-year +74.06% -41.13% +48.65%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Warwickshire

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Warwickshire

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwick 0 9 £575 +11.65% 2
Gaydon - 1 £500 -
NIST
West Midlands

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Network Security
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) IT Architect
3 3 (21.43%) IT Security Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Network Security Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Security Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
4 1 (7.14%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SIEM Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 6 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 5 (35.71%) Data Structures
3 5 (35.71%) SCADA
4 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Application Security
2 6 (42.86%) Change Control
2 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 6 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 6 (42.86%) Security Architecture
2 6 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Business Process Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (35.71%) OWASP
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) Waterfall
4 4 (28.57%) MoSCoW
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (21.43%) Privileged Access Management
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CISA
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) COBIT
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft